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When the micro-units of emerging dynamic processes are cognitive agents, a very important and unique phenomenon arises, called Cognitive Emergence (CE). We argue that: CE characterises the theory of Sociological dynamics with respect to other forms of emergence at different level of organisation (ex. physics, biology, etc.); CE has a very strong influence on the process of emergence, changing it, and should be taken into account in simulating and modelling social phenomena; certain important emerging social phenomena, like social norms cannot be explained at all without CE; CE has critical consequences on the process of “immergence” i.e. the process through which the macro-level emerging structure or global result ‘feedbacks’ into the micro-level re-shaping the “elementary” behaviours. We examine the case of dependence relationships.
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Castelfranchi, C. (1998). Simulating with Cognitive Agents: The Importance of Cognitive Emergence . In: Sichman, J.S., Conte, R., Gilbert, N. (eds) Multi-Agent Systems and Agent-Based Simulation. MABS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1534. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10692956_3
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